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Date:	Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:52:29 +0200
From:	Marian Jancar <m.jancar@satca.net>
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Ralf Baechle wrote:
>> {standard input}: Assembler messages:
>> {standard input}:2716: Error: Branch out of range
>> {standard input}:2819: Error: Branch out of range
>> {standard input}:2884: Error: Branch out of range
>> {standard input}:3032: Error: Branch out of range
>> {standard input}:3097: Error: Branch out of range
>> {standard input}:3151: Error: Branch out of range
>> {standard input}:3216: Error: Branch out of range
>> make[1]: *** [drivers/telephony/ixj.o] Error 1
>> make: *** [drivers/telephony/ixj.o] Error 2
> 
> A known problem which I had decieded to ignore until it begins to actually
> bite.  It's triggered by something like this
> 
>                 __asm__ __volatile__(
>                 "       .set    mips3                                   \n"
>                 "1:     ll      %0, %1          # atomic_add            \n"
>                 "       addu    %0, %2                                  \n"
>                 "       sc      %0, %1                                  \n"
>                 "       beqz    %0, 2f                                  \n"
>                 "       .subsection 2                                   \n"
>                 "2:     b       1b                                      \n"
>                 "       .previous                                       \n"
>                 "       .set    mips0                                   \n"
>                 : "=&r" (temp), "=m" (v->counter)
>                 : "Ir" (i), "m" (v->counter));
> 
> when compiled into a large compilation unit.

Please unignore :) It bites when compiling madwifi (without profiling or
anything such).

Marian